Public safety summary

A Savannah woman was arrested Tuesday for twice trying to run over her husband.

Pearlie Mae Ellis, 64, has been charged with aggravated assault in the Oct. 16 incident.

According to a Garden City Police Department report, the victim was riding his bike on Garden City’s 2nd Street, near Davis Avenue, when his wife ran him down with her 1992 Mazda.

He did not appear to be seriously injured.

The victim told police it was the second time that day his wife tried to run him down. In the first instance, he said, he was on Savannah’s Magazine Street, on his way to church, when she tried to hit him with her car, but he cut through a field and onto railroad tracks to elude her.

The second time, he said, he tried to cut into a field to escape his wife, but she sped up and hit his bike. Witnesses said he was sent flying into the air.

The victim said Pearlie Ellis got out of the car, stood over him cursing, then fled the scene.

Reached by telephone Wednesday night after being released on a $2,950 bond, Pearlie Ellis denied hitting her husband with a car, claiming he jumped off his bicycle when he saw her coming, fell to the ground, and pretended to be hurt.

“If I ran over that man with a car, he would be hurt,” she said. “He don’t weigh 100 pounds if you filled his pockets up with water.”

Ellis and her husband declined to say what led to the incident, except that they’d been arguing that day over “some old stuff that happened in the past.”

They were back together two weeks later, according to the victim, and Pearlie Ellis, who lives in the 1100 block of Allen Avenue with her husband, was arrested after she was pulled over on Ga. 21 because of a cracked windshield and police found an outstanding warrant. She was on her way home after picking up her husband from work, according to the couple.

Police nab 2 suspected burglars

Savannah-Chatham police on Wednesday caught a pair of burglary suspects shortly after thieves left a home on 51st Street.

Just after 3 p.m.,police received a call about three men running from a home after breaking into it, said Gena Moore, police spokeswoman. The witness gave police a partial tag, description of the vehicle and suspects.

In less than 15 minutes the vehicle was spotted in the 100 Block on Oleander Drive. Three men were seen getting out of it and going into a house. Officers set up a perimeter and, once the house was surrounded, attempted to make contact with the subjects inside.

The homeowner was located and gave consent for officers to enter. Two of the three men seen running from the house on 51st were located inside and positively identified.

Brandon Stewart, 17, and Devin Lee, 19, were arrested and charged with burglary.

Several firearms were recovered, as well as a cache of ammunition, Moore said.

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